The Daily Firewood Picture Thread

[Al_Smith]

A few years back I installed a single wall stainless steel liner inside a clay lined chimeny because I was getting a creosote problem .That cured it .The only portion to get any build up is the top 6 inches above the exit .Once a year I run a brush through it .Actually it was made in Ohio,22 gauge seamless  from a builders supply for a fraction of the price than a so called stove shop .

[Al_Smith]

Now another picture .As far as I know the last of the red oak for the season .It doesn't get much better than this stuff .Not too bad for an old coot if I do 

 say myself .All split .I'll stack it in the mourning .Time for happy hour  ;D

[beenthere]

Didn't know you were 85.  : :

[Al_Smith]

Not quite that old , yet but I'm looking forward to it .

[GRANITEstateMP]

Al, what's the story with the ole Ford in the background?

[GRANITEstateMP]

Gathered up some hemlock logs for campwood from a neighbors new driveway


I pulled the trailer with the Kubota.  Sometimes I feel you need to remind folks that this is NH and you shouldn't be surprised to see a tractor driving down the road

Other times, I just want to do 13mph and to he** with all the flatlanders that are in a hurry to go nowhere!

[SwampDonkey]

Should keep things cozy at the camp.

Built a smudge here today, Lee is a cold storm with NE winds and rain. Only 56F outside. She's about 78F in here, don't want it hot. Wasn't a rip roaring fire. Keeps the dampness away. ;D

[Al_Smith]

Al, what's the story with the ole Ford in the background?

It's resting at the moment .1977 ford f-250 with a 300 6,C4 tranny  and 263 thousand miles .It's tired but weather I rebuild that tough old engine remains to be seen .It's been a good one though and I just can't seem to part with it .It owes me exactly nothing .That's the neat thing about living in the woods,nobody can see your junk . ;D

[SwampDonkey]

That Ford is too new, old Bernstein drives stuff from 40's vintage. Just a little rib poke'n, Al. ;D


Grandfather was a Ford man, up until his last vehicle, which was a Toyota. My other grandfather was into Dodges and Chevs, never a lot of miles, just a lot of years on them before they made rust bucket vehicles. And a farm truck made do as a pickup truck. Dad courted mother in an old farm truck used to haul taters. Went to the dance hulls and the whole nine yards. When her father first seen it in his yard he asked, 'what's this?', rolling his eye. He was always a jokester with a few words. Yes, there was more said about the transportation and character of anyone courting in it. :D Well, dad didn't turn out too bad, and was a successful farmer that the government bureaucrats and food processors couldn't beat out. The last man standing where others lost out. ;)

[Al_Smith]

I've only bought one new vehicle in my life and it still  looks almost new .2009 Mercury Grand Marquis that replaced a 1990 Cadillac . Other things like tractors etc everything I own is old .I'm frugal for one thing and although I made my living as an electrician I also know how to turn a wrench .On more modern stuff if I can't figure it out Google will .My teenage years were in the era of 57 Chevies and even today I could almost rebuilt a Chevy small block or a Ford Y block engine with my eyes closed .

[Al_Smith]

Now the firewood stuff I've been around most of my life .Fact I developed that power swing in baseball by swinging an axe .i certainly don't need to burn it but due to fact I have an abundance of it .Plus it keeps me limbered up rather than grow fat in the rump from watching reruns of old movies on the telly .However instead of hitting it a mighty lick I only do it about 4 hours a day ,that's  enough plus I am supposed to be retired .

[thecfarm]

I've got a old ford 250 packed in the woods too. Mine is a 1976 with a 6 banger too, 4 speed.

[g_man]

I've got a old ford 250 packed in the woods too. Mine is a 1976 with a 6 banger too, 4 speed.

Isn't that where Fords belong ??    ;D
gg

[SwampDonkey]

Dad's uncle left a few old vehicles from the 40's and 50's behind the house in the orchard for the porcupines and coons to live in. Could be an aspen growing up through the engine compartments, as I don't think any of them have an engine. ;D Back in the day, there was nowhere to get rid of old carcasses. ;)

[cutterboy]

My father had an old car grave yard at the edge of a back field. When China was paying big money for scrap metal people wanted them so we were able to get them hauled away. Also some old rusted farm equipment.

[Al_Smith]

When China tried to corner the market on scrap steel they loaded up old rusty freighters that were lucky to make one more crossing over the Pacific .The entire mess was cut up,ship and all in India . I think back then they melted anything from I-beams to old beer cans ,old wire fence .That metal went from old rusty Edsels to cheap Chinese stuff in a period of about 50 years . Steel never goes away .It starts out as iron ore and ends up as rust which is iron ore for all intents .Mother natures form of recycling if you think about it .

[SwampDonkey]

The government had a few pick up days scheduled a few years. Might have gone on for 5 years, then fizzled out.  First, they wasn't going to give you a dime. Second, if it was all grown up in trees and brush, it was going to stay there. Government doesn't work for nothing, neither is anyone else. :D

[Al_Smith]

It's been close to 40 


 years ago we retrieved a 1935 John-Deere model B that as sunk half way up to the axles .This was before the run on scrap steel .It took my Oliver OC 6 crawler to snatch it out and chainsaw to cut the trees around  it .My bud completely rebuilt it . I think he paid $100 for it .Although the engine was stuck the magneto still worked plus one of the rear tires still held air .

[mudfarmer]

Neighbor just brought an old narrow front end Farmall back to life, 17 years sitting on a stone wall in a hedge row. "new" tires so dry rotted you can see through the cracks and a tune up and it's moving hay wagons :D

[Al_Smith]

I've lost track of how much old junk I've retrieved from the scrappers .One was a John-Deere model A I brought home in 5 gallon buckets .My daughter still talks about that deal .Took the good ole Oliver dozer to get that one also which itself took my brothers wrecker to get it .Only one I didn't finish and that was a Farmall F-20 somebody made me a deal I couldn't refuse .

[trapper]

logrite trailer and wolfridge splitter go together good for me,  I can fill the trailer with 16 inch peices  and when split into campfire wood it fills one of my half face cord racks, The trailer was one of the first ones made which I won at one of the pigroasts,  Still works like new,  The loglift on the splitter is a backsaver,

 

 

[Al_Smith]

No pics today but I took the tally .3.5 cords of dry red oak,around 3.5 of dry ash about 3/4 of not dried hickory .Maybe another 2 or3 of mixed like ash,cotton wood and basswood .I'll finish my stacks out by weeks end  and be done before October .In a normal year I burn 4-4.5 cords . After that I've got some saws to tune and a few to tweak so I'll test on some type of wood enough to put a load on .Come cold weather and the leaves have fallen I have a couple of big trees to drop but not to cut up this winter .

[weimedog]

Just remember the "Rush" song "Tree's" & The line "By Hatchet Axe & Saw"  Pretty much nails it at my house. A video of the firewood season begins

Firewood Ops 2023 With A Husqvarna 575 & Tractor Supply Log Splitter - YouTube

[doc henderson]

 

 

 

cleaning up some sawmill flitches to make junk firewood.  Cottonwood, ERC, light stuff made for a campfire or fireplace.

[cutterboy]

Junk firewood gives off nice heat. My stoves see their share of it.